INDIANAPOLIS — The Indianapolis Housing Agency (IHA) released its new 12-month action plan to revitalize its properties on Monday.

The agency is currently under the watch of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.

Yvonda Bean, the new CEO, was brought in three months ago to help get the agency running in good standing. After 12 weeks, she’s releasing a new plan.

IHA is calling the 12-month action plan “A New Day & Better IHA.”

The plan focuses on 5 areas that desperately need improvement:

• Operations
• Finances
• People
• Priorities
• Safety and security

Bean wants to restore IHA’s reputation, mend broken relationships and hold itself accountable.
“We don’t want to lose sight of why we’re here, and why we are here is to serve the families,” Bean said.

The plan also includes operations upgrades for IHA, highlighting recently purchased computers and software.

After two years, the IHA phone lines are working again. The agency received 10,000 calls in the first week.

“Operable phone systems that allow people access to us outside of having to physically come to the office was extremely important, and it has been a tremendous relief to our residents,” Bean said.

Other changes include saying open past 5 p.m., developing evacuation plans, a new website, better spending management, a study into compensation, a fee account and more.

Bean wants to train employees, rebrand IHA with new logos and better utilize the housing choice voucher program.

“At least we have a plan, because without a plan, you’re planning to fail,” said Paula Lasley.

Paula Lasley spoke on behalf of several Lugar Tower residents.

“It doesn’t matter if you’re young or you’re old. If you’re in any of these properties, don’t expect us to live in any conditions that you wouldn’t want to live in,” said Lasley.

Maintenance requests have been a concern for years.

“The elevators have been a serious problem because we have people that are on the 15th floor that are in wheelchairs. The firefighters have had to carry people down the stairs, and that is absolutely unreasonable and that’s not fair to them. But we need to get that handled immediately,” said Lasley.

“Truly taking a look at our inventory to determine exactly what the needs are and then devising a strategy to address many of those needs. The elevators have been an issue again when you’re talking about old or aged inventory, aged buildings, you’re going to have those kinds of things happen,” said Bean.

“But, we have been extremely responsive as a matter of fact, we have new elevators being installed at a couple of our properties and so that will occur over the next several months, and we’re really excited about being able to do that through our capital fund program which is specific to public housing,” she added.

The CEO said seven multi-family properties are also for sale. Investors have until June 30 to express interest.

IHA said current residents will not be impacted, but it will allow for better management.

“We’re going to get where we need to be, it’s just going to take a little bit of time to do it,” she said.

The timeline of the 12-month plan is broken up into quarters.

Bean told WRTV how budget cuts could affect funding and future projects.

“One of the challenges we anticipate will certainly have to do with funding. We are definitely in uncertain times and in recent stories you’ve seen where the proposed budget is likely going to cut many of the programs that we administer so that of course is going to impact our ability to be able to serve families or serve the number of families that we serve currently and so we’re we’re talking through and trying to ensure that we don’t have families that are left behind through some of the some of these cuts that we’re anticipating,” said Bean.

The Indianapolis Colts will learn their 2025 schedule with Wednesday night’s release from the NFL. The complete 18-week, 272-game regular season schedule along with all preseason dates will be set.

The Colts, who finished 8-9 last season, added defensive backs Charvarius Ward and Camryn Bynum, and quarterback Daniel Jones in free agency. They picked tight end Tyler Warren in the first round of the NFL Draft. Indianapolis lost offensive linemen Will Fries and Ryan Kelly, and edge rusher Dayo Odeyingbo in free agency.

Here’s what you should know about the NFL schedule release.

AFC South opponents, home and away: Houston Texans, Jacksonville Jaguars, Tennessee Titans

Home games: Denver Broncos, Las Vegas Raiders, Arizona Cardinals, San Francisco 49ers, Miami Dolphins, Atlanta Falcons.

Road games: Kansas City Chiefs, Los Angeles Chargers, Los Angeles Rams, Seattle Seahawks, Pittsburgh Steelers.

Colts strength of schedule

The Colts’ 2025 opponents had a .464 winning percentage the previous season, 24th in the 32-team league. Four of those games come against struggling AFC South foes Jacksonville and Tennessee.

Even with unsteady play under center last season, the Colts tied for the league lead with five wins in games decided by three or fewer points. Better quarterback play could yield more wins and perhaps a playoff berth.

Colts prime-time games

Without a premier quarterback, the Colts haven’t been a popular pick for night games. The vast majority of their games last season were 1 p.m. Sunday starts, though a November game against the Minnesota Vikings was flexed to a Monday night.

Only the Jaguars (6) have played fewer prime-time games at home over the last 10 years than the Colts (9). The Colts have played the 20th most total prime-time games in the last 10 years.

NFL prime-time results from 2015-24

NFL home prime-time results from 2015-24

The early over-under, as set by Betmgm.com, has Indianapolis winning 7.5 games, two games behind the Houston Texans, even with the Jacksonville Jaguars and two ahead of the Tennessee Titans.

The Buffalo Bills, Baltimore Ravens, Kansas City Chiefs and Philadelphia Eagles are 11.5 wins. The Cleveland Browns trail the league at 4.5 wins.

What do Colts want to see on 2025 schedule?

There’s no way to take a game at Jacksonville — where they haven’t won since 2014 — off the schedule. And they have to play Week 1, which hasn’t treated them well, either. They haven’t won a season opener since 2013, though they tied the Houston Texans in 2022.

They’re going to host a game in Germany and make three trips to the West Coast (both Los Angeles teams and Seattle). At least they will pile up frequent flyer miles.

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When is Colts schedule release?

8 p.m. ET Wednesday, May 14, 2025